For obese child healthy habit and healthy eating habit is very important. Most of the time obese child eats more calories per day, too much fat in the diet and too much sugar in the diet. We need to start healthy habits early on in their life.
Few of the things that parents can do:
1. Don’t stop eating carbohydrate: kids are still in growing stage, you don’t want to limit foods but watch the portion size
2. Keep working toward decreasing consumption of fat: American diet has high of saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol. Consume less than 10% of calories from saturated fatty acid and less than 300 mg/day of cholesterol, and keep trans fatty acid consumption as low as possible. When selecting and preparing meat, poultry, dry beans, and milk or milk products, make choices that are lean, low-fat, or fat-free
3. Watch calories and portion size: American portion size has doubled in last decades. Many restaurants offers large sizes, eat smaller portion and bring left over for next day
4. Don’t reward kids for good behavior: Parents tend to reward kids with sweets and treats to fix bad behavior this is not a good idea. Think of other activities that you can do with kids
5. Don’t maintain a clean-plate policy: reinforce the idea that they should only eat when they’re hungry
Birth to age 1: breastfeeding is the best option to prevent excessive weight gain. Somehow these kids have less of obesity problem.
Ages 2 to 6: start good habits early; help shape food preferences by offering a variety of healthy foods.
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